Hate scrolling through all of your different sets of widgets? Then heres an app for you!

boombuler over at XDA wrote this simple app that makes all of our lives easier. Its called AppWidgetPicker and is simple: it groups all of your widgets by packages. Once a widget with multiple sizes is selected, it displays another menu with all of the different choices.

To use it just press menu>add>widgets (like adding regular widgets) and it should appear.

Here's a screenshot to show you what it looks like..

to install, either use ADB or Root Explorer (easiest) or Terminal Emulator

1: Root Explorer.

download .apk to sdcard and navigate to using RE.

move apk to /system/app (mount to R/W to be able to paste)

install by clicking it.

change permissions to the following:

User: Read, Write; Group: Read; Others: Read

click save and restart phone

2: Using ADB -I dont use adb so heres my best guess on how to use it. to set up adb, see link in my signature

put the .apk on the root of the sdcard enter the following code:
Code:

All I had to do for the installation with root explorer was move it to /system/app, change permissions, and reboot.

Though this is a nice change from the cluttered old widget selector we had.

Good find Abe!

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Wow this is cool! This might be a really dumb question, but i'll just ask. So after you move it to /system/app, did you not press it and click install(as it says in the OP)? Also, if i wanted the old widget selector back, i would just delete this apk file yes? Thanks!

All I had to do for the installation with root explorer was move it to /system/app, change permissions, and reboot.

Though this is a nice change from the cluttered old widget selector we had.

Good find Abe!

Click to expand...

Wow this is cool! This might be a really dumb question, but i'll just ask. So after you move it to /system/app, did you not press it and click install(as it says in the OP)? Also, if i wanted the old widget selector back, i would just delete this apk file yes? Thanks!

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No, I didn't click install, and yes, deleting it would work just fine.

All I had to do for the installation with root explorer was move it to /system/app, change permissions, and reboot.

Though this is a nice change from the cluttered old widget selector we had.

Good find Abe!

Click to expand...

Wow this is cool! This might be a really dumb question, but i'll just ask. So after you move it to /system/app, did you not press it and click install(as it says in the OP)? Also, if i wanted the old widget selector back, i would just delete this apk file yes? Thanks!

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No, I didn't click install, and yes, deleting it would work just fine.

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